Chapter Summaries

Fang Qianyuan destroyed the Chaos Behemoth and wounded Yin Zheluo with a Heaven Tier attack, while Central Province’s forces realized they could no longer defeat him. As Yang Jingwei ordered the coalition experts to retreat, Feng Yan warned that it was already too late.

• Fang Qianyuan’s claw shattered the Chaos Behemoth and struck Yin Zheluo through the barriers between worlds, damaging his pavilion and leaving him wounded.
• Fang Qianyuan celebrated his victory and gained an early understanding of a Heaven Tier ability, while Meng Xuanfei and Si Yuanjin fled in terror.
• Fang Qianyuan’s attack destabilized the formation connecting Feng Yan, He Dongling, Jian Ruyi, and the other Central Province experts.
• Yang Jingwei took over the formation and ordered the experts to retrieve their treasures and withdraw, judging that Fang Qianyuan could no longer be defeated.
• Feng Yan bitterly told Yang Jingwei that it was already too late.

Fang Qianyuan defeated the Central Province attackers and survived the end of his Heaven Tier transformation. After the battle, he searched the canyon and recovered the enemy’s mystic treasures.

• Little White struck down the Slaying Sword, while Fang Qianyuan deflected the Break and Annihilate swords and froze them against the cliffs.
• Feng Yan, He Dongling, and Jian Ruyi retreated, while Fang Qianyuan killed Yin Long and the remaining clan elites and death warriors.
• The Black Moon dissipated, ending Fang Qianyuan and Little White’s Heaven Tier transformation and returning Fang Qianyuan to Earth Rank strength.
• Fang Qianyuan searched the battlefield with the Golden Coin Mouse and found the Four Swords, formation talismans, a treasured mirror, and a golden rope.

Fang Qianyuan discovered that the Spirit Wandering Mirror revealed his mind ape and mind horse, manifestations of his primordial spirit. He summoned the mind ape to empower himself and then immersed his mind in the mirror’s vast inner world.

• Fang Qianyuan found that the Spirit Wandering Mirror showed an ape instead of his reflection, and Xiang Dao emerged as his mind ape.
• Xiang Dao explained that the mind ape marked Fang Qianyuan’s progress on the primordial spirit path and that mastering the mind horse would bring him closer to Heaven Tier.
• Fang Qianyuan summoned the mind ape, which enveloped him in a spirit garment and manifested a towering ape phantom.
• Fang Qianyuan sensed a world inside the mirror and saw his mind horse, while Little White sensed its presence through her connection to him.
• Fang Qianyuan immersed his mind in the mirror, where his mind ape leaped onto the mind horse and revealed a vast inner world.

Fang Qianyuan explored the Spirit Wandering Mirror, discovering how it revealed his memories, exposed his fears, and connected his painted worlds to the Mind Apes that had helped manifest the Chaos Behemoth. In the Northern Frontier, Yang Jingwei and his allies admitted they had no reliable way to counter Fang Qianyuan and considered spreading rumors to draw other forces after him.

• Fang Qianyuan rode the Mind Horse through the mirror’s mindscape and realized that clear places reflected memories while indistinct ones came from imagination.
• Fang Qianyuan relived his battle with the Chaos Behemoth and recognized that facing his fear and strengthening his resolve could nourish his mind.
• Fang Qianyuan entered his painted scrolls and revisited scenes from his past, finding a Mind Ape in every painted world.
• Fang Qianyuan understood that the Mind Apes in his paintings explained how the Chaos Behemoth had been manifested.
• Yang Jingwei convened his subordinates in the Allied Army’s main camp to discuss how they could respond if Fang Qianyuan returned to the battlefield.
• Yang Jingwei’s allies concluded they could not directly stop Fang Qianyuan and discussed spreading word that he possessed the Reverse Time Transformation.

After learning that Fang Qianyuan had slain a Heaven Tier Realm manifestation at Eagle's Sorrow Ravine, the Azure Cloud Sect accepted his spoils and let him remain outside to investigate. As rumors about the Flying Immortal Records stirred up the Southern Wilds, envoys from the Profound Yin Sect invited him to meet their master, Lord You Shan.

• Fang Qianyuan told the Azure Cloud Sect envoy how he had killed the Chaos Behemoth's Manifestation and handed over four Slay and Annihilate swords while keeping the Spirit-Roaming Mirror and Dragon-Binding Cord.
• Fang Qianyuan refused to return to the sect, and Yu Shixian let him continue investigating the mastermind and seeking a way to quell the fighting.
• The Central Province Coalition Army pulled back and fortified its positions, while Yang Jingwei and the others spread clues about the Flying Immortal Records to draw factions toward Fang Qianyuan.
• Fang Qianyuan faced a wave of probes and ambushes from people who knew little of the true events, while those who understood his strength stayed hidden.
• Envoys of Lord You Shan invited Fang Qianyuan to visit him, revealing that their master led the Profound Yin Sect in the Western Plains.

Lord You Shan, whose true name was Yin Wuji, invited Fang Qianyuan to the Bright Moon Tower to propose exchanging cultivation techniques with his father, Yin Shanhe. Fang Qianyuan remained wary of the Profound Yin Sect, but the chance to study their Vision-Enhancing Art and the Demon God Nine Transformations left him tempted.

• Lord You Shan waited in the Bright Moon Tower and welcomed Fang Qianyuan when he arrived with a Heavenly Wolf.
• Fang Qianyuan identified his host as Yin Wuji, the eldest son and heir of Profound Yin Sect Grand Elder Yin Shanhe.
• Yin Wuji invited Fang Qianyuan inside and proposed exchanging his Reverse Time Transformation for Yin Shanhe's similar Vision-Enhancing Art.
• Yin Wuji described Yin Shanhe's pursuit of the Great Dao and offered a possible alliance in their search for immortality.
• Fang Qianyuan doubted Yin Wuji's claims and feared Yin Shanhe might use the exchange to reconstruct the complete past body, but he was intrigued by the chance to study their art.

Fang Qianyuan used the Reverse Time Transformation to uncover Yin Wuji’s plan to swindle his cultivation art with an incomplete Metal Spirit text. He rejected the false exchange and demanded that Yin Wuji hand over the text, threatening him with his life.

• Yin Wuji told Fang Qianyuan that his father possessed the Metal Spirit Transformation and proposed exchanging it for the Reverse Time Transformation.
• Fang Qianyuan secretly used Past Body, Past Scene Retrospection to witness Yin Wuji admitting he planned to trick him into handing over his art.
• Yin Wuji offered Fang Qianyuan gifts and asked whether he had decided to make the exchange.
• Fang Qianyuan exposed his hostility and demanded the Metal Spirit Transformation, threatening to spare Yin Wuji only out of respect for his Heaven Tier father.

Yin Wuji tried to trick Fang Qianyuan into surrendering Reverse Time Transformation, then attacked him with two Flying Yaksha corpse puppets. Little White and Fang Qianyuan destroyed the Bright Moon Tower and struck down the puppets, leaving Yin Wuji facing their counterattack.

• Yin Wuji became furious when Fang Qianyuan exposed his deception and decided to seize Reverse Time Transformation by force.
• Yin Wuji summoned two Flying Yaksha corpse puppets from his ring and sent them to attack Fang Qianyuan.
• Little White blocked a Flying Yaksha’s attack, but its body proved exceptionally durable.
• Little White transformed into a giant wolf, smashed apart the Bright Moon Tower, and swept both Flying Yakshas aside.
• Fang Qianyuan used Borrowing Art, Wind Claw, to nearly sever both Flying Yakshas and leave them apparently lifeless.

Fang Qianyuan defeated Yin Wuji’s flying yakshas and destroyed the Bright Moon Tower, but Yin Shanhe’s will appeared through his son and offered him a fragment of Metal Spirit Transformation. Yin Shanhe revived the Corpse Puppets and escaped with Yin Wuji, leaving Fang Qianyuan with the incomplete text.

• Fang Qianyuan used a spatially empowered Wind Claw to sever the flying yakshas, then froze them with Little White’s Frost Breath.
• Yin Wuji tried to rouse the Corpse Puppets, but Fang Qianyuan blasted the Bright Moon Tower with Greedy Wolf Style Black Moon, killing those inside and burying Yin Wuji in the ruins.
• Yin Shanhe’s Mind Ape will possessed Yin Wuji and asked Fang Qianyuan to spare his son, offering him a fragment of Metal Spirit Transformation.
• Fang Qianyuan recognized the text as genuine but incomplete, and Yin Shanhe explained that he did not possess the original.
• Yin Shanhe used Bloodfire to free the Corpse Puppets, which rejoined their severed halves and carried Yin Wuji away.

Fang Qianyuan studied the Metal Spirit Transformation fragment and consulted the Sect about developing his Dao paths. The Sect revealed it possessed six derivative secret manual fragments and offered him a cultivation plan, while requesting his original Reverse Time Transformation.

• Fang Qianyuan studied the Metal Spirit Transformation fragment and considered using it to refine his Primordial Spirit and pursue the Yang Spirit Path.
• Yin Shanhe scolded Yin Wuji for provoking Fang Qianyuan, ordered him to reflect in seclusion until he reached Earth Rank Tenth Transformation, and left him behind.
• Fang Qianyuan studied the Yang Spirit Path and wrote to the Sect Master for advice about acquiring spirit creatures related to his cultivation.
• Yu Shixian replied that the Sect possessed six secret manual fragments adapted from the Demon God Nine Transformations and formally requested Fang Qianyuan's original Reverse Time Transformation.
• The Sect endorsed Fang Qianyuan's study of the Flying Immortal Records and outlined cultivation paths involving the Space Dao, Brush Immortal, and Mind Ape.

Elder Long visited Fang Qianyuan and witnessed his newly cultivated past body, which let him conceal his true body in the chaos void. He delivered six incomplete cultivation methods, and Fang learned that the versions he had seized were secret editions, unlike the Sect’s standard editions.

• Elder Long and a local clan elder entered Fang Qianyuan’s residence and found him meditating beside a white Heavenly Wolf.
• Fang Qianyuan’s past body concealed his true body from Elder Long and the clan elder, then he returned to view and confirmed his cultivation had reached initial success.
• Fang Qianyuan explained that his time Dao ability could not send him back in time or reverse the River of Time, though it enabled him to observe the past and achieve other unusual feats.
• Elder Long delivered incomplete copies of the Undying Transformation, Metal Spirit Transformation, Ten Thousand Tribulations Transformation, Four Symbols Transformation, Transcendent Transformation, and Dimensional Transformation on behalf of the Sect Master.
• Fang Qianyuan noticed that three of the delivered methods differed from his own copies, and Elder Long explained that his were secret editions while the Sect’s were standard editions.

Elder Long presented Fang Qianyuan with cultivation arts tailored to his Dimensional Transformation and Heavenly Wolf spirit creature, revealing the sect’s plan to help it advance toward heaven tier. Fang Qianyuan understood how the arts fit together and awaited the spirit creatures and other resources the sect had prepared.

• Elder Long offered to exchange Fang Qianyuan’s three secret editions for the sect’s common editions and brought him to inspect additional supplies.
• Elder Long gave Fang Qianyuan the Seven Kills Void-Breaking Slash, a killing art designed to work with Dimensional Transformation and call upon the Seven Kills Star God.
• Elder Long presented the incomplete Lunar Star God Art and explained that Fang Qianyuan should adapt it to condense the Seven Killings, Army Breaker, and Greedy Wolf star gods.
• Elder Long explained that the sect’s Heavenly Observation Court had devised a cultivation path to nurture Fang Qianyuan’s Heavenly Wolf spirit creature toward heaven tier by using the power of the Three Void Stars.
• Fang Qianyuan grasped how the cultivation arts complemented one another and wondered what spirit creatures and other resources the sect had prepared.

Elder Long guided Fang Qianyuan in choosing Spirit Creatures and clarifying how they would support his cultivation paths and Little White’s future evolution. After days of instruction, Fang Qianyuan learned that he needed Taotie Origin to pursue the Greedy Wolf path and help Little White refine a star god.

• Elder Long explained how a Wind Weasel could support Fang Qianyuan’s Wind Path cultivation, and Fang Qianyuan subdued it.
• Elder Long introduced a Mysterious Tortoise whose defenses and resistance to the Tribulation Dao could aid Fang Qianyuan’s transformations, and Fang Qianyuan subdued it after a struggle.
• Elder Long showed Fang Qianyuan a hundred blue-eyed gray wolves as auxiliary troops and explained that giving them living forms could teach him the Manifestation Dao and help Little White evolve.
• Elder Long personally instructed Fang Qianyuan, who made rapid progress understanding his Dao Paths and planning his cultivation.
• Fang Qianyuan asked what he lacked to follow the Greedy Wolf path, and Elder Long told him he needed Taotie Origin.

Elder Long explained how the sect planned to help Fang Qianyuan advance Little White toward Heaven Tier by awakening her Greedy Wolf nature and using Fusion Refinement, while promising extensive support. Fang Qianyuan reached the Sixth Transformation, but an urgent report said Shangyang City was on the verge of falling.

• Elder Long outlined a flexible advancement plan using Taotie Origin and the Three Divine Star Fates to awaken Little White’s Greedy Wolf nature and evolve her toward Heaven Tier.
• Fang Qianyuan accepted the plan, and Elder Long said the sect had arranged a Taotie hunt and that two Grand Elders would guide him at the sacred grounds.
• Elder Long advised Fang Qianyuan to consolidate his cultivation, raise Little White’s grade, and improve his mastery of the Various Cultivation Arts before pursuing Demon God Nine Transformations.
• In early fifth month, Fang Qianyuan broke through to the peak of middle Earth Rank, reaching the Sixth Transformation.
• Fang Qianyuan and Elder Long received an urgent report that their forces were losing on the front lines and Shangyang City was close to falling.

After Shangyang City fell, Fang Qianyuan learned that the sect might call on talented younger experts to help resist the Central Province. Meng Du received a summons, while Liu Yeye and three other Azure Cloud Eight Elites arrived in Xilan City to aid the Northern Frontier.

• Elder Long told Fang Qianyuan that the Allied Army had withdrawn its main force and might call up younger-generation experts, including Meng Du and Liu Yeye.
• Elder Long explained that Meng Du and Liu Yeye had both advanced to Earth Rank and become prominent among the newest experts.
• A Thunder Eagle found Meng Du at the East Pass and summoned him to Headquarters over the fighting in the Northern Frontier.
• Meng Du rode his giant python Bā Snake away after hearing the news.
• Liu Yeye and three other members of the Azure Cloud Eight Elites were welcomed by the Mu Family in Xilan City.

The Azure Cloud Sect sent its Eight Geniuses north to help defend Tower City against the Central Province Coalition Army. Fang Qianyuan learned that the sect had secretly ordered him to oversee the Northern Frontier and protect them.

• Liu Yeye learned from Fang Lian that all eight of the Azure Cloud Sect’s Eight Geniuses had been summoned to serve under Grand Elder Bu in the Northern Frontier.
• Several days later, the Eight Geniuses gathered in Tower City and sized up one another’s cultivation, strength, and prospects as they prepared for the coming war.
• In Liying City, Fang Qianyuan received secret orders assigning him to secretly oversee the Northern Frontier and protect the Eight Geniuses.
• Elder Long read the orders and was surprised that the sect had entrusted this senior-level duty to Fang Qianyuan.

Fang Qianyuan agreed to protect the Azure Cloud Eight Elites on the new front line while continuing his investigation into the forces behind the war and the Flying Immortal Records. He returned to the Yinshan Kingdom as a secret protector, while Grand Elder Bu chose not to try recruiting him.

• Elder Long explained that protecting the Eight Geniuses could build Fang Qianyuan's influence and earn him merit, but Fang Qianyuan said he had other matters to pursue.
• Fang Qianyuan told Elder Long he still needed to identify outside ties in the Warrior Hall, the Supreme Heaven Sect's role, and how far the records had been collected.
• Elder Long advised Fang Qianyuan to let the sect take over the investigation, and Fang Qianyuan agreed to go if the sect prepared someone to replace him when needed.
• The Sect Master approved Fang Qianyuan's request, and he returned to the battlefield in the Yinshan Kingdom to secretly protect the Eight Geniuses.
• Grand Elder Bu considered bringing Fang Qianyuan into his service, but decided against it because Fang Qianyuan had grown too powerful and the Elders' Council might object.

Yu Shixian and a masked man agreed to reorganize the sect’s forces and move against Wu Lianyi, then issued a decree branding Wu a traitor and ordering his capture or death. The announcement shocked factions across the land, while a mysterious cloaked figure in the Southern Wilds concluded that someone had deceived him.

• At the Ascension Academy, the masked man urged Yu Shixian to spare ordinary members of the Warrior Hall and argued that the sect should end private armies.
• Yu Shixian agreed that the Main Hall’s forces would serve under the masked man and that the Branch Halls would be jointly administered by the Ascension Academy and the Administrative Affairs Institute.
• The masked man warned that Wu Lianyi was close to reaching Emperor Rank, and Yu Shixian ordered the sect to hunt Wu, his five trusted accomplices, and the other fugitives while taking Situ Sheng alive.
• Yu Shixian’s decree spread throughout the land, stunning Yang Jingwei and other factions who had not known of the conflict.
• In a hidden cave in the Southern Wilds, the cloaked figure in the black-and-white opera mask realized that he had misjudged someone.

The Azure Cloud Sect crushed the Warrior rebellion and reorganized its forces, while Central Province escalated its Southern Invasion. The Azure Cloud Eight Elites were assigned to hunt enemy Earth Rank cultivators in the Yinshan Kingdom, with Fang Qianyuan ready to support them.

• The Azure Cloud Sect launched coordinated attacks on rebel strongholds, suppressed the uprising, and ordered the surviving Warriors to return to the sect.
• More than ten General-Rank Warriors attacked the Southern Region camp but were defeated by the sect's Earth Rank Elders, with only three escaping.
• Fang Qianyuan and Elder Long discussed how the sect had used the Warrior Hall's Main Hall to end the rebellion and keep the Eight Elites out of the internal conflict.
• Yang Jingwei ordered Central Province's army to intensify its Southern Invasion and sent Earth Rank cultivators on raids, prompting the Azure Cloud Sect to assign the Eight Elites to hunt them.
• Zhao Bai, Zhou Rushan, and Zhu Feng organized the Eight Elites into three teams to pursue enemy cultivators in the Yinshan Kingdom.
• Fang Qianyuan approved the teams' arrangements, put away the Confidential Letter, and left the stronghold with the sect stewards.

Lian Yi, the Bloodwing Bat King, arranged a trap for the Azure Cloud Eight Elites by ordering Central Province’s infiltrators to reveal their locations. The Eight Elites took the bait and scored several victories, but as they advanced toward the coalition army’s main camp, Lian Yi watched in secret and the enemy drew a net around them.

• Lian Yi learned that the Azure Cloud Eight Elites were searching southeastern Yinshan and ordered infiltrating Earth Rank cultivators to expose their whereabouts.
• The Eight Elites debated whether the enemy’s movements were bait, then chose to pursue the exposed targets and seize the initiative.
• Wang Xuanying, Zhu Feng, and Zhao Bai killed one of two enemy rogue cultivators and wounded the other.
• Fang Lian, Meng Du, and Su Liangyu annihilated a team of Earth Rank cultivators and Death Warriors, then the Eight Elites wounded two more infiltrators.
• The Eight Elites advanced toward the Central Province Coalition Army’s main camp while Lian Yi secretly targeted them and the infiltrators began withdrawing to form a net.